FRAMED CURL SIDE BORDER



This tutorial is my own creation. Any resemblance to another is purely co-incidental. Please do not copy, translate or place on any other site. You are more than welcome to use this tutorial in a group setting, but please link to this page only.


Tools needed to complete this tutorial:

Corex XI

A graphic of your choice.
The graphic used in this tutorial was used as per TOU by the very talented AreYouMe Artist.


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  1. Open your graphic of choice and resize so that it's no wider than 350 pixels.

  2. Right click in your layer palette and promote background layer.

  3. Right click again in your layer palette and duplicate your image twice. You now have three layers.

  4. Hide the top two layers, and make sure the bottom layer is the active layer.

  5. Effects, Reflection Effects, Rotating Mirror and use the following settings:-

    • Horizontal offset:      -50 (minus)
    • Vertical offset:      0
    • Rotation Angle:      315
    • Edge Mode:      Reflect.

  6. Open the middle layer and make sure it's the active layer.

  7. Hide the bottom layer.

  8. Effects, Reflection Effects, Rotating Mirror and use the following settings:-

    • Horizontal offset:      50
    • Vertical offset:      0
    • Rotation Angle:      225
    • Edge Mode:      Reflect.

  9. Lower the opacity of this layer to 50%.

  10. Open the bottom layer. Only the top layer should now be closed. Making sure one of the open layers is the active one, merge visible.

  11. Duplicate the merged layer twice.

  12. Your top layer should still be hidden.

  13. Hide the bottom two layers, and make sure that Copy (2) of merged layer is the active layer.

  14. Effects, Reflection Effects, Rotating Mirror and use the following settings:-

    • Horizontal offset:      -50 (minus)
    • Vertical offset:      0
    • Rotation Angle:      45
    • Edge Mode:      Reflect.

  15. Hide this layer now, and open copy of merged layer and make it the active layer.

  16. Effects, Reflection Effects, Rotating Mirror and use the following settings:-

    • Horizontal offset:      50
    • Vertical offset:      0
    • Rotation Angle:      135
    • Edge Mode:      Reflect.

  17. Lower the opacity of Copy (2) of merged layer to 50%.

  18. Lower the opacity of Copy of merged layer to 75%.

  19. Open your bottom layer. You now will again only have the top layer closed.

  20. Right click on one of the open layers, and merge visible.

  21. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless tiling and use the following settings:-

    • Mirror checked.
    • Bidirectional checked.
    • Horizontal & Vertical:      0
    • Width:      50

  22. Windows, duplicate the merged layer and minimize for now. This will be our background image later in the tutorial.

  23. Open the top layer and make it the active layer.

  24. Image, Resize and resize by 90%, all layers UNchecked.

  25. Effects, Image Effects, Page Curl and use the following settings:-

    • Color:      Use your eye dropper to pick a complimenting colour from your graphic.
    • Radius:      63
    • Width:      93
    • Height:      87
    • Edge Mode:      Transparent
    • Corner:      Bottom right

  26. Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the following settings:-

    • Vertical & Horizontal:      -1 (minus)
    • Opacity:      60
    • Blur:      5
    • Color:      White
    • Shadow on new layer:      UNchecked.

  27. Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the following settings:-

    • Vertical      3
    • Horizontal &nsbp;    7
    • Opacity:      60
    • Blur:      5
    • Color:      Black
    • Shadow on new layer:      UNchecked.

  28. Merge visible.

  29. Image, Canvas size and use the following settings:-

    • Width:      1250
    • Height:      Same height as your graphic.
    • Placement:      Left middle arrow.

  30. Effects, 3D Effects, Drop shadow and use the same settings as our last drop shadow, but change your vertical to 0.

  31. In your colour palette, change your foreground to pattern and find the pattern that we minimized earlier.

  32. Add a new raster layer and drag to the bottom. Flood fill with your pattern.

  33. Effects, Distortion Effects, Ripple and use the following settings:-

    • Horizontal & Vertical:      50
    • Amplitude:      10
    • Wavelength:      40
    • Edge Mode:      Transparent

  34. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur and use a setting of 25.

  35. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless tiling and use the following settings:-

    • Mirror checked.
    • Bidirectional checked.
    • Horizontal & Vertical:      0
    • Width:      50

  36. Lower the opacity if needed and merge all, flatten.

  37. Selections, select all.

  38. Selections, modify, contract and contract by 2.

  39. Ctrl + C and then Ctrl + V.

    This will stop the little space that sometimes occurs with the drop shadow when tiling the image in Letter Creator.

    You can now put it all together.


        


    © An Aushorty Design – August 2005 - Rewritten February 2008